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Definition of Exacts
1. exact [v] - See also: exact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Exacts
Literary usage of Exacts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The law exacts the completion of seventeen years for a man and fifteen for a woman.
The consent of the parents is required for males under thirty, ..."
2. Financial Advertising: For Commercial and Savings Banks, Trust, Title by Elias St. Elmo Lewis (1908)
"... the printer directly to uie Him •*»• or indirectly exacts his toll. If it is
a sign painter, the sign painter must conform to accepted type faces, ..."
3. The Modern Régime by Hippolyte Taine (1890)
"—He exacts proportion in what he grants.—II. The apportionment of charges.—New
fiscal principle and new fiscal machinery.—III. Direct real and personal ..."
4. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus, George Campbell Macaulay (1904)
"... that is to say those most needing it of the rest who remain : and, as I have
heard, he exacts large sums of money for opening them, besides the regular ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1879)
"And а law like the one proposed—which legalizes u large number of places of sale
in every city, which exacts no bond of the persons so authorized, ..."
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